The high-street bakery chain has announced that it intends to cut as many as 820 jobs as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
The news was posted to the Greggs employee information website and comes following reduced hours for many workers from September onwards. Chief Executive Roger Whiteside commented that the “battle with Covid hasn’t gone away and is intensifying further.” This comes following a second UK lockdown with further restrictions in England currently.
Chief Executive Roger Whiteside said: “Covid trading condition have forced this action onto our business and we are all very saddened by the need to part company with around 820 friends and colleagues, many of whom have worked with us for many years.”
He continues: “At lockdown levels of sales, even after all of the mitigating action that we have taken, Greggs will not be profitable as a business and there can be no room for complacency.”
